Leaked food strategy for English schools is paltry, experts say

Campaigners say that with children being fed microwaved and cold meals by schools struggling with the cost of living crisis, a stronger response is needed. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

The government’s new food strategy offers a “paltry” budget of £250 for each English state school to teach healthy eating, and ignores most of Henry Dimbleby’s plans to improve child nutrition, campaigners say.

They say that with children being fed microwaved and cold meals by schools struggling with the cost of living crisis, a stronger response is needed.